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To P. H. Gosse 27 April [1857]
Summary
Asks PHG to conduct an experiment to see if young littoral molluscs will cling to a duck’s foot – CD seeks to explain distribution of molluscs without adopting E. Forbes’s [continental extension] theory.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Philip Henry Gosse |
| Date: | 27 Apr [1857] |
| Classmark: | Leeds University Library Special Collections (Brotherton Collection: Gosse Correspondence) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2082 |
To P. H. Gosse 28 September [1856]
Summary
Thanks PHG for information about the bald-pate pigeon.
Will write to Richard Hill.
Can PHG remember any facts relevant to transport of animals and plants to distant islands?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Philip Henry Gosse |
| Date: | 28 Sept 1856 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Charnwood Autographs Vol. IV Add MS 70951: 316) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1962 |
To P. H. Gosse 7 April [1864]
Summary
Discusses microscopic observation of pollen tubes.
Unable to exchange orchids because of his illness.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Philip Henry Gosse |
| Date: | 7 Apr [1864] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.298) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4454 |
